Free will: reasoned article (Introduction)

by David Turell , Monday, May 19, 2014, 17:56 (3841 days ago) @ romansh


> Romansh: Alfed Mele a few years ago took a grant (4 M$) from the Templeton Foundation to study free will. He was a compatibilist back then and remains one now it seems.
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> That our wills might be determined by quantum phenomena or more classical phenomena does not change the fact they are caused by these events. If our wills are actually acausal, this might explain alot but it makes a complete nonsense of the concept of free will. And this for me is why the concept of free will is non sequitur. 
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> This I find an equally compelling view.-We will have to agree that we are on opposite sides of the fence. Blakemore and I are worlds apart in our thinking. And that is ever since I read her book Dying to Live, with its pseudo-medical physiology interpretations.-I'm not enough of a philosopher to worry about the way my brain hands me myself and my consciousness, because what we discover is that it is probably the only way a biological computer can do the job we need. I cannot try to influence individual neurons, unless I consciously sedate them with alcohol or neuroactive drugs. And I remain consciously aware of what I have done to impair myself when I have used alcohol.